1st Edition
Cultural Impacts of English as the Scientific Lingua Franca Using Language for Specific Purposes Corpora to Examine Science Communication
Introduction. Part I Science in retrospect 1. Science, culture, and language 2. Science in Japan 3. Science in a multicultural world Part II Building corpora to meet linguistic needs in science and engineering 4. Building the Japanese-English corpus of presentations in science and engineering 5. Building the online corpus of academic lectures Part III Linguistic features of scientific discourse from analyses of corpora 6. Linguistic dimension of moves in research presentations in science and engineering 7. The use of verb tense and modality in research presentations by expert and novice native English speakers 8. The use of pronouns in research presentations by expert and novice native English speakers and novice non-native English speakers 9. Analyses of American and Japanese classroom discourse in science and engineering: Asking questions in lectures Part IV Knowledge building in science and engineering 10. Legitimation Code Theory and the analysis of classroom discourse 11. Using Legitimation Code Theory to analyze classroom discourse Part V Implications for science and engineering research and education 12. Importance of awareness of cultural differences by researchers, instructors, and students
Biography
Nílson Kunioshi is a Professor in the Faculty of Science and Engineering at Waseda University, Japan.
Kazuko Tojo is a Professor Emerita at Osaka Jogakuin University, Japan.
Judy Noguchi is a Professor Emerita at Kobe Gakuin University, Japan. She is also an Adjunct Lecturer at The University of Osaka and Kobe University, Japan.
